Wheatstone, Sir Charles (18021875)

Wheatstone, Sir Charles, celebrated physicist and electrician, born near Gloucester; was a man of much native ingenuity, and gave early proof of it; was appointed professor of Experimental Philosophy in King's College, London, and distinguished himself by his inventions in connection with telegraphy; the stereoscope was of his invention (18021875).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

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